I am really excited about the upcoming holiday season, especially the fun drinks that come out during this season like a hot toddy, eggnog, or mulled wine. On Thanksgiving, I was introduced to another incredible DC brand located in Ivy City, Don Ciccio & Figli. They have an incredible set of liqueurs and I visited their vendor at the Dupont Circle Farmers market that weekend and bought a bottle of their prickly pear. Since then, I have been having fun using their prickly pear liqueur to make new drinks and this is the first of hopefully many drinks to come.
Ingredients:
2 ounces of gin (Vitae or Aviation preferably)
1 ounce of prickly pear liqueur
.5- .75 ounce of ginger simple syrup
.5- .75 ounce of cranberry concentrate
.5 ounce of lime juice
2-3 ounces of club soda
Method:
- Combine gin, prickly pear liqueur, ginger simple syrup (see my simple syrup recipe here), cranberry concentrate, and lemon juice in one ice shaker.
- Shake to combine and in a cold glass and top with a bit of club soda.
- Add raspberries or blackberries for garnish.